Controversial Books for darwin.8u

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.805 3.25 The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ by Joseph Smith
1.420 3.92 Our Search for Happiness by M. Russell Ballard
1.358 3.29 Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard
1.324 3.30 The Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner
1.318 3.14 Only Revolutions: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.317 3.70 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
1.301 3.01 Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
1.301 3.70 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1.280 4.28 Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith
1.278 3.63 Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie
1.249 3.93 A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards
1.243 3.88 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1.242 3.62 Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
1.240 3.36 Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
1.231 3.77 A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas
1.228 3.45 In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin
1.222 2.88 Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
1.220 3.85 Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America) by Alexis de Tocqueville
1.219 3.36 Let the Dog Drive by David Bowman
1.211 3.92 Our Heritage: A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1.209 3.10 The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
1.206 3.91 The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell
1.206 4.01 Ulysses by James Joyce
1.205 3.64 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
1.204 3.65 Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr
1.203 3.37 The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley
1.200 3.57 The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
1.197 2.76 The Kills by Richard House
1.196 3.69 The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
1.193 3.36 The Blue Guitar by John Banville
1.192 3.71 Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
1.189 3.53 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1.186 3.26 The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon by Alexandre Dumas
1.186 3.84 Fifty Great American Short Stories by Milton Crane
1.185 3.37 Adverbs by Daniel Handler
1.184 3.02 Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
1.184 3.50 Father Joe by Tony Hendra
1.184 3.79 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
1.183 3.47 Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
1.183 3.97 The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1.182 3.84 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
1.174 3.73 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
1.171 3.68 A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
1.167 3.65 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1.165 3.53 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1.162 3.37 Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by Charles E. Bressler
1.160 3.75 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
1.160 3.81 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
1.155 3.21 All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
1.154 4.26 The Miracle of Forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball
1.153 3.28 Justine by Marquis de Sade
1.152 3.82 The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
1.148 3.97 Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
1.147 3.39 Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
1.142 3.17 The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
1.140 3.57 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
1.140 3.84 Mating by Norman Rush
1.139 3.24 The Genizah at the House of Shepher: A Novel by Tamar Yellin
1.139 3.60 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
1.139 3.67 The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
1.139 3.67 Buried Child by Sam Shepard
1.139 3.80 Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
1.136 3.35 Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
1.136 3.56 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1.131 3.81 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1.128 3.97 The Instructions by Adam Levin
1.128 3.53 Saints by Orson Scott Card
1.128 3.78 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
1.127 4.05 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
1.126 3.67 The book of J by David Rosenberg
1.125 3.54 The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
1.125 3.58 The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard
1.121 3.93 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1.117 3.86 How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization by Mortimer J. Adler
1.115 3.91 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
1.114 3.96 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
1.114 3.62 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1.112 3.17 The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
1.112 3.58 The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
1.112 3.33 Story of O by Pauline Réage
1.109 3.51 The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey
1.109 3.08 The Gathering by Anne Enright
1.109 3.29 The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
1.108 3.75 Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese
1.108 3.76 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
1.108 2.96 Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
1.107 3.41 What Maisie Knew by Henry James
1.107 3.84 Jerusalem by Alan Moore
1.107 3.64 In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry III
1.106 3.95 Main Street / Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
1.106 3.04 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
1.106 4.33 Lectures on Faith by Joseph Smith
1.104 3.71 The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
1.103 3.43 Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson
1.103 3.85 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.102 3.40 I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
1.102 3.71 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
1.102 3.90 Imperial by William T. Vollmann
1.100 3.47 Perfidia by James Ellroy
1.100 3.39 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1.100 4.15 Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.098 3.22 Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
1.098 3.59 A Nasty Piece of Work by Robert Littell
1.096 3.71 Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
1.096 3.39 Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
1.095 3.71 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1.094 3.67 The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
1.094 4.15 J R by William Gaddis
1.094 3.64 I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
1.094 3.82 The Public Burning by Robert Coover
1.094 3.79 Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
1.093 3.49 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.091 3.56 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
1.091 3.51 The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
1.090 3.51 The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.090 3.64 Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
1.088 3.50 The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.087 3.17 The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years by Edward Klein
1.087 3.00 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
1.087 3.40 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
1.086 3.61 Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution by Geoffrey A. Moore
1.086 3.66 The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin
1.086 3.49 Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
1.086 4.07 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
1.085 3.43 The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
1.085 3.28 C by Tom McCarthy
1.084 3.42 The Vorrh by Brian Catling
1.084 3.52 The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
1.084 4.21 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
1.083 4.15 Articles of Faith by James E. Talmage
1.083 2.98 A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Laurence Sterne
1.082 3.66 Roughneck by Jim Thompson
1.082 3.75 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
1.082 3.33 In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor
1.082 3.79 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
1.082 3.46 The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
1.080 3.88 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
1.079 3.44 City of God by E. L. Doctorow
1.078 3.44 Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Minogue
1.078 3.32 Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K. Dick
1.077 3.88 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1.077 3.68 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
1.076 3.23 The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
1.076 3.91 About Love by Anton Chekhov
1.075 3.59 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
1.075 3.31 A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
1.074 3.84 The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
1.073 3.58 Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
1.072 3.81 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
1.072 3.69 Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
1.072 3.67 Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1.071 3.57 Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden
1.071 3.02 Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
1.070 3.44 Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
1.069 3.76 Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
1.069 3.49 Until I Find You by John Irving
1.069 4.09 The Tunnel by William H. Gass
1.069 3.47 Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
1.069 3.86 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
1.068 3.64 George Mills by Stanley Elkin
1.068 3.13 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
1.068 3.97 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
1.067 3.70 Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1.067 3.24 Fury by Salman Rushdie
1.067 3.34 Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
1.067 3.63 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
1.066 3.80 The American Revolution, Writings from the War of Independence by John H. Rhodehamel
1.066 3.83 Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
1.065 3.91 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1.065 3.48 The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
1.065 3.75 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1.065 3.24 Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom
1.064 3.71 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
1.064 3.93 The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
1.064 3.77 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1.064 3.67 Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
1.063 3.84 The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew
1.063 3.46 Beyond Freedom & Dignity by B. F. Skinner
1.063 3.95 The Magus: a revised version by John Fowles
1.063 3.53 The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
1.062 3.89 Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
1.062 3.39 The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
1.061 2.87 A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
1.061 3.66 Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
1.060 3.95 City of God by Saint Augustine
1.058 3.64 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1.058 3.49 Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter
1.058 3.20 Kingdom Come by J. G. Ballard
1.057 3.44 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1.057 3.48 Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
1.056 3.71 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
1.056 3.57 Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
1.056 3.82 Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Chesterfield
1.056 3.95 Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
1.055 3.47 Tinkers by Paul Harding
1.055 3.37 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
1.055 3.18 Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner
1.055 3.92 Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
1.054 3.74 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1.054 3.96 The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine
1.054 3.00 Mission to America: A Novel by Walter Kirn
1.054 3.55 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
1.054 3.26 Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
1.052 3.90 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
1.051 4.12 Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau
1.051 3.58 Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner
1.051 3.63 The Secret History of MI6: 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
1.050 3.63 The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa
1.050 3.48 The Sea by John Banville
1.050 3.97 Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
1.049 3.89 Underworld by Don DeLillo
1.049 3.87 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1.049 3.56 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
1.049 3.73 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
1.048 3.83 Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
1.048 3.47 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein
1.048 3.55 Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.048 3.61 Duplex: A Novel by Kathryn Davis
1.048 3.60 Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
1.047 3.36 On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
1.047 3.16 Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
1.047 3.69 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
1.047 3.87 The Force by Don Winslow
1.047 3.29 Real World by Natsuo Kirino
1.046 3.71 Rhetoric by Aristotle
1.045 3.44 Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta
1.045 3.85 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
1.045 3.46 The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
1.045 3.94 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1.044 3.46 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
1.044 3.57 Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind
1.043 3.88 The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
1.043 3.52 Middle C by William H. Gass
1.043 3.71 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1.042 3.35 Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
1.042 3.75 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1.042 3.86 Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
1.042 3.30 Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
1.042 3.58 Them by Joyce Carol Oates
1.042 3.72 Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
1.041 3.34 Deception Point by Dan Brown
1.041 3.81 The Blue Day Book by Bradley Trevor Greive
1.041 3.96 Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
1.040 3.81 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
1.040 3.32 The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
1.040 3.33 The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
1.040 3.74 The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
1.039 3.78 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
1.039 3.48 Deathwatch by Robb White
1.039 3.71 Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
1.038 3.74 The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities by William Dunham
1.037 3.74 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
1.037 3.57 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1.036 3.54 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
1.036 3.84 Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw
1.035 3.44 Freud: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
1.035 3.72 Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
1.034 3.38 Antkind: A Novel by Charlie Kaufman
1.034 3.76 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1.034 4.07 The Go-Giver: A Surprising Way of Getting More Than You Expect by Bob Burg
1.033 3.87 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1.033 3.77 Paradise by Toni Morrison
1.033 3.73 The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
1.033 3.71 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
1.033 4.13 Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters by Thomas Jefferson
1.033 3.37 The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
1.032 3.64 Condominium by John D. MacDonald
1.032 3.96 Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi
1.032 3.52 Chimera by John Barth
1.032 3.32 Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
1.032 3.57 The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1.032 3.98 Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
1.032 3.99 Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
1.032 3.61 Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
1.031 3.60 Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
1.031 3.41 Joseph Andrews and Shamela by Henry Fielding
1.031 3.78 Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
1.030 3.27 The Amateur by Robert Littell
1.030 3.15 The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carré
1.030 3.90 Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone
1.030 3.42 Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard
1.030 3.75 Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales
1.030 3.53 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
1.030 3.24 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
1.030 3.91 Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
1.030 3.66 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
1.030 3.85 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1.029 3.72 The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
1.029 2.99 House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
1.029 3.53 The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
1.029 3.49 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
1.028 3.94 The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
1.028 3.50 Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
1.027 3.88 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {abridged by Womersley, 1v, Penguin Classics} by Edward Gibbon
1.027 3.94 The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
1.026 3.90 Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1.026 3.56 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.025 3.79 Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt by Esther Forbes
1.024 3.97 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
1.024 3.81 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
1.024 3.68 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
1.024 3.58 Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston
1.024 3.54 Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
1.023 4.08 War and Remembrance, Vol. 1 by Herman Wouk
1.023 3.45 Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
1.022 3.80 Exemplary Novels by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.022 3.85 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
1.022 3.43 All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus
1.022 3.99 The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Padmasambhava
1.021 4.12 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
1.021 3.47 This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
1.021 3.66 Herzog by Saul Bellow
1.021 3.64 The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
1.021 3.82 The Dead Sea Scrolls by Michael O. Wise
1.020 3.47 Drood: A Novel by Dan Simmons
1.020 3.59 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
1.020 3.64 The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1.020 4.30 The Recognitions by William Gaddis
1.020 3.42 Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
1.019 3.04 Lies, Inc. by Philip K. Dick
1.019 3.68 Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
1.019 3.53 The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
1.019 3.62 Pincher Martin by William Golding
1.019 3.52 Kepler by John Banville
1.019 4.18 Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann
1.018 3.53 Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
1.018 3.57 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1.018 3.15 Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
1.018 3.91 Neuromancer by William Gibson
1.018 3.63 The Last Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
1.017 3.57 Snow by Orhan Pamuk
1.017 3.18 The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare
1.017 3.60 Summerland by Michael Chabon
1.017 4.15 Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1.017 4.07 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1.016 3.53 On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
1.016 3.53 The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
1.016 3.96 The Associated Press Stylebook by Norm Goldstein
1.016 3.61 The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1.016 3.60 Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1.015 3.89 The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
1.015 3.61 Winter by Karl Ove Knausgård
1.015 3.81 The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
1.015 3.09 Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
1.014 3.77 White Noise by Don DeLillo
1.014 3.71 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
1.013 4.08 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.013 3.57 Orfeo by Richard Powers
1.013 3.15 Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter M. Miller Jr.
1.012 3.69 God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
1.012 3.81 Beowulf by Beowulf Poet
1.012 3.54 Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
1.011 3.06 The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
1.011 3.49 Chess For Dummies by James Eade
1.011 3.79 The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr
1.011 3.71 The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings
1.010 3.93 The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
1.010 3.74 The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
1.010 3.30 The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
1.010 4.17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1.009 3.77 Poetics by Aristotle
1.009 3.71 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
1.008 3.79 God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
1.008 3.92 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1.008 4.16 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
1.008 3.64 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1.008 4.12 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
1.008 3.32 Zone One by Colson Whitehead
1.008 3.26 A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel by Ken Kalfus
1.008 3.88 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1.008 3.55 Satori by Don Winslow
1.008 3.92 The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Jr. Wangerin
1.008 3.61 The Bushwhacked Piano by Thomas McGuane
1.007 4.10 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1.007 3.94 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1.007 3.64 Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis
1.007 3.52 36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer
1.007 3.66 Savages by Don Winslow
1.007 3.74 Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
1.006 3.88 The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project) by Andrew Bacevich
1.006 2.80 Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
1.006 3.90 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1.005 3.71 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
1.005 3.70 Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
1.005 3.85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1.005 4.09 A confession and other religious writings by Leo Tolstoy
1.005 4.11 Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham
1.004 3.85 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian
1.004 3.66 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
1.004 3.34 The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
1.004 3.89 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
1.004 3.82 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
1.004 4.12 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1.004 3.42 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
1.003 3.80 The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
1.003 4.02 Possession by A. S. Byatt
1.003 3.55 Baudolino by Umberto Eco
1.003 3.48 Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
1.003 3.78 The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks
1.002 3.60 Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
1.002 3.89 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
1.001 3.94 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1.001 3.94 The White Goddess by Robert Graves
1.001 3.43 The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
1.001 3.45 The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
1.001 3.85 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1.001 3.48 Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
1.001 3.80 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1.001 4.06 Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary by Noah Webster
1.000 3.78 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1.000 3.84 Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
1.000 3.65 The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes
1.000 3.85 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
1.000 3.55 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
0.999 3.97 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
0.999 3.23 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
0.999 3.53 Inland by Téa Obreht
0.999 3.35 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
0.999 3.89 A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
0.999 3.75 At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition by H. P. Lovecraft
0.998 3.34 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
0.998 3.95 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
0.998 3.50 Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia
0.998 3.73 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
0.998 3.71 Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert
0.998 3.58 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
0.998 4.16 Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
0.997 3.52 Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison
0.997 3.84 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
0.997 3.99 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
0.997 3.55 Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting - A Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to Finished Script by Syd Field
0.997 3.65 Politics by Aristotle
0.997 3.44 Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
0.997 4.00 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
0.997 3.90 The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
0.997 3.81 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
0.997 3.87 Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Mary Shelley
0.996 4.08 Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
0.996 3.72 Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
0.996 3.74 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
0.996 3.49 Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
0.996 3.67 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
0.996 3.76 Oedipus the King / Antigone by Sófocles
0.996 3.78 Selected Works by Marcus Tullius Cicero
0.995 3.83 The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
0.995 3.93 The Mountains of California by John Muir
0.995 3.73 Black Spring by Henry Miller
0.994 3.57 Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
0.994 3.49 The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt
0.994 3.79 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
0.993 3.96 Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas Hofstadter
0.993 3.75 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
0.993 3.45 Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
0.992 3.88 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
0.992 4.04 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
0.991 4.01 Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
0.991 3.90 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
0.991 3.17 Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
0.991 3.20 The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
0.991 3.53 The King by Donald Barthelme
0.991 3.43 Letters from an American Farmer; and, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
0.991 3.55 The Once and Future Spy by Robert Littell
0.990 3.34 Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour by Mark Leyner
0.990 3.94 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
0.990 3.75 Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
0.990 3.51 The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
0.990 3.55 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? by Harold Bloom
0.989 4.06 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
0.989 3.56 Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
0.989 3.80 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
0.988 3.92 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
0.988 3.32 Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
0.988 3.41 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
0.988 4.10 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
0.988 3.89 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
0.987 3.78 The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
0.987 3.46 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
0.987 4.00 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
0.987 3.51 Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever
0.987 3.53 Snow White by Donald Barthelme
0.987 3.47 Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
0.987 4.10 Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown
0.987 3.67 The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
0.986 3.81 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
0.986 3.93 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
0.986 3.61 The Brain: A Very Short Introduction by Michael O'Shea
0.986 3.66 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
0.986 3.88 Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
0.986 4.00 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
0.985 3.95 A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring by Anthony Powell
0.985 3.20 Dead Babies by Martin Amis
0.985 3.59 Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass
0.985 3.51 Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
0.985 3.52 The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski
0.985 3.84 The Thin Red Line by James Jones
0.985 3.99 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
0.985 3.48 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
0.985 3.67 The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
0.984 3.96 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger